Rift Font

Mattox Shuler designed Fort Foundry’s Rift with older science-fiction posters as a starting point. The foundry describes tall geometric forms associated with square sans lettering, developed into a family intended to work beyond that original genre.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The family includes five weights, corresponding italics and Soft styles. Stylistic alternates change individual forms, while tabular figures help align columns of numbers. This guide concerns Fort Foundry’s design; other unrelated products also use the name Rift.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Compare a compact poster title with a row of times or scores. Enable tabular figures where vertical numeric alignment matters. Try the Soft and standard treatments with identical wording to judge how much angularity suits the design.

For independent comparisons, try Antonio and Michroma. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Fort Foundry to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Rift font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.